hologram
Etymology
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Etymology
From holo- + -gram, from Ancient Greek ὅλος + γραμμή ("letter, line"), coined by Hungarian-born British scientist Dennis Gabor in 1948, the 1971 Nobel prize winner in physics for his work in holography.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈhɒləɡɹæm/
hologram (plural holograms)
- A three-dimensional image of an object created by holography.
- Synonyms: holograph
- 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 233 ↗:
- He turned his head and stared out to sea, longing for the hologram logo of Fuji Electric, for the drone of a helicopter, anything at all.
- French: hologramme
- German: Hologramm
- Portuguese: holograma
- Russian: гологра́мма
- Spanish: holograma
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